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Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Paper presentation at McGill Law School

Yesterday, as noted by the Tax Prof Blog, I was in Montreal, at McGill Law School, presenting my recent international tax policy article that offers a kind of sequel or follow-up to my international tax book.

For scheduling reasons related to my teaching schedule here at NYU, I ended up giving the talk at a special session (rather than in their usual Tax Policy time slot). with students in attendance from several different tax classes at McGill, including those in Tax I who had not yet encountered even Canadian, much less U.S., international tax law or policy. So I ended up giving a kind of general lecture on U.S. and other international tax law and policy, rather than mainly focusing on the new article. This was reasonably fun (for them too, I hope), albeit, given my NYU teaching schedule, my second straight day of giving a 3-hour lecture.

I have revised slides regarding the article, but as I will be presenting it at the National Tax Association Annual Meeting next week, I will wait until the week after that to post them here. At that point, I'll probably also post slides that I am working on for my 2 discussant slots at NTA: one discussing papers by Alan Auerbach and David Kamin, and the other discussing papers by David Gamage and Itai Grinberg.

About Me

I am the Wayne Perry Professor of Taxation at New York University Law School. My research mainly emphasizes tax policy, government transfers, budgetary measures, social insurance, and entitlements reform. My most recent books are (1) Decoding the U.S. Corporate Tax (2009) and (2) Taxes, Spending, and the U.S. Government's March Toward Bankruptcy (2006). My other books include Do Deficits Matter? (1997), When Rules Change: An Economic and Political Analysis of Transition Relief and Retroactivity (2000), Making Sense of Social Security Reform (2000), Who Should Pay for Medicare? (2004), Taxes, Spending, and the U.S. Government's March Towards Bankruptcy (2006), Decoding the U.S. Corporate Tax (2009), and Fixing the U.S. International Tax Rules (forthcoming). I am also the author of a novel, Getting It. I am married with two children (boys aged 16 and 19) as well as four (!) cats. For my wife Pat's quilting blog, see Patwig’s Blog.